Paper Cutting Assignment

This time...we have to create two different artworks (A4 sizes) using paper cutout and collage techniques on our assignments...this made me feel so interested about it, because it are involving on those paper cutting, and I love it! Two different artworks including symmetrical artwork and asymmetrical artwork, that is, 1 artwork represents balance and symmetry,and another artwork represents dominance,weight and also space... In order to understand what are these all about, I did so many researches on internet, and got so many references from it... Next, I decided to use the subject matter called ' fairy tales ' from childhood stories such as snow white,cinderalla,alice in wonderland... For me,it look so attractive =) Then, I sketched it out and cut it carefully... But, I realized that it's quite difficult when cutting the papers... I need to focus so much on it and cut it out very careful...After that, I also pasted it on two mounting boards, actually pasting the papers also became another trouble for me, because I need to adjust the papers to make it fix on the mounting boards...It also took me a week to finish up the whole assignment...The final artworks might not be perfect, but hope it could be approved by Ms Lisa...At the end, I gained so many things from it...

                                                  This is the sketching of symmetrical artwork

                                           This is the sketching of asymmetrical artwork

                                           This is the final artwork (asymmetrical)

                                           This is the final artwork ( symmetrical)

Camera shot the day

This was really an interesting day :) As we were asked to prepare something for this class,such as mounting board,blade.....we had to cut the mounting board and made it a frame. Next, Ms Lisa wanted us to select subject matter of our liking such as door, window, cup, bin and so on. We would also need to hold our frame in every shot as our 'view finder',using it to crop our shots,and shoot at least 30 shots to show Ms Lisa for her approval. And, we were not just capture it in the class but also in the whole campus. So, all of us started to walk around the campus to look for some inspirations or to capture the photos. For me, I chose plant as my subject matter, plant is the nature of our real life, it grows everywhere. 'No plants, no earth.' So, I walked around the campus and able to take many photos of plants because there are so many plants in Taylor's university. Then, I realized that plants could be very attractive if you will be able to capture it nicely. We got sweating all the day but I had a lot of fun and learnt something new. And finally, I got Ms Lisa's approval, I appreciate it, I will put more efforts on it. =D

The art movement- Cubism

Our very first assignment for this course is to do some research about art movement and find out the art movement that we feel represents us best. After going through the long list of art movement of Wikipedia, I found out that the art movement that I represents me the best is Cubism. =)
First of all, cubism is artistic movement that spanned from 1907 to 1914, and which featured the abandonment of traditional rules on perspective in favor of flattened, geometric representations of objects and people. It has been created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Other important painters are Roger de la Fresnaye, Louis Marcoussis and Francis Picabia, Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes are also of note. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. This movement generally are characterized by geometric, fractured forms, muted, depthless colors and unspecified edges. Many use basic Euclidean geometric solids: pyramid, cube, sphere, cylinder and cone. Besides that,  'CUBISM' derived its name from the remarks made by painter Henry Matisse and critic Louis Vauxcelles who described Braque's work "Houses at L'Estaque" as made up of cubes. There is two types of  cubism which are Analytic and Synthetic.  Analytic Cubism, lasted from 1907 to 1912, and is characterized by polygonal structural constituents, neutral organic colors and human figures. Other while, Synthetic cubism  is from 1912 to 1919. It's also combining a few objects together. The links that enabled me to find this research are http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-cubism.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism .
There's some pictures which I found fascinating :

                                          Cassie Thinking About Cubism by Philip Absolon

                                               Harbor by Georges Braque  

                                                              Georges Braque

                                                      Man with a Violin by  Pablo Picasso

                                                             Pablo Picasso

                                             

                                                   Woman with Pears by Pablo Picasso

                                    This is my self portrait using the art movement,Cubism.

First Lesson of Principles of Design =)

The day, is the first lesson of Principles of Design. I was wondering what's it all about? In fact, Miss Lisa gave us an activity, that is, all students were required to design an oneself mind map and also our very own self portrait. We did have 2 hours to complete it. At the beginning, I had no idea what to do about these, and a question kept appearing in my mind, 'do I understand me?' In fact, I did. =D  The picture as shown on the top of the post is my self mind map, it might be looks so simple compared to others, but it defines me. As my nickname called Apple, so I just draw an apple in the middle of the mind map in order to make everyone could remember my name easily. Besides, I also wrote down my personality and the things that I like, for example, I am an active person, but sometimes, I'm also lazy...... And for the favourite colour that I like is pink colour, so while I draw the mind map, I mostly used pink colour, it might be feel a little bit ridiculous, but it's me! Next, I also wrote down my goal, that is, I hope to get good result in my studies, make money in the future... :) Last but not least, there's a picture below the mind map, it's my self portrait. All the materials used to complete this self portrait are all from the nature, I walked around the campus and finally, I got something to make the self portrait. By the way, I don't think it looks like my face, may be this called art,or maybe it is not. After we have completed all these things, we had to present it one by one. It's really made me felt nervous but also it was a fun lesson. :D